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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 April 2026
The derivation of Portuguese iguaria from Late Latin iecuāria, proposed LANG. 20.108-30, receives support from the discovery, in an ancient Judaeo-Spanish Bible translation (Escorial MS I.j.4 of the early 14th century, fol. 22a, line 35), of the two variant forms yguaria and yegueria, i.e. yegüería. The text is as yet unpublished; I owe knowledge of the passage under study to the courtesy of Professor O. H. Hauptmann, who has specialized in this field. The sentence (Genesis 43:34) reads as follows: Et fizo leuar yguarias delante el a ellos, e cresçio la yegueria de Benjamin mas que la yegueria de todos al çinco tanto, et beuieron vino e çidra con el ‘And he sent messes unto them from before him; but Benjamin's mess was five times so much as any of theirs, and they drank wine and cider with him.‘
1 The discovery of yegüería, with its characteristic diphthong in the pretonic syllable, also makes untenable the conjecture proposed in Lang. 21.98–9.